DC targeted with harassing messages for allowing non-citizens to vote in primary

A sign for an early voting site at the Stead Park Recreation Center in north-west Washington, last week. Photograph: Robert Yoon/AP

In a message left for the Washington DC board of elections on 1 May, a caller expressed anger at the city for allowing non-US citizens to vote in local elections.

“Where the hell do you get off letting illegals vote?” the caller, who does not leave their name, said in a voicemail that the board of elections executive director, Monica Evans, played for the Guardian. “This is the nation’s capital. You are traitors. Traitors to your own country.”